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The Pamela & Arthur Sanders Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$482k
Granted FY2023
26
Grants FY2023
20
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 24
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
7
Total assets, FY2023
$3.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations The Pamela & Arthur Sanders Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
EducationInternationalArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202320$282k40%
FY202213$126k62%
FY202024$183kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$253kArts & Culture$219kHealth$130kHuman Services$55kInternational$53kPhilanthropy$27kHousing & Shelter$25kSocial Science$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Whitney Museum of American Art$64,51520%
American Friends of the Israel Museum$51,95030%
Washington Institute for Near East Policy$50,00020%
Greenwich Country Day School Inc$50,00020%
Museum of Modern Art$25,00010%
Tikva Childrens Charities Inc$25,0001n/a
White Columns Inc$21,50021%
Dia Center for the Arts Inc$20,00020%
Anderson Ranch Arts Center$18,50030%
New York Historical Society$16,70020%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($177k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Pamela & Arthur Sanders Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $64,515 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Israel Museum: $51,950 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWashington Institute for Near East Policy: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGreenwich Country Day School Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Columns Inc: $21,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetDia Center for the Arts Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnderson Ranch Arts Center: $18,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $16,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Aspen Institute Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJacob Burns Film Center Inc: $7,350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGreenwich Town Party Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $5,915 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBruce Museum Inc: $5,625 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMississippi Center for Justice: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Greenwich: $2,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House of New York Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSolomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaestro Cares Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeeds of Peace Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $1,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCT Against Gun Violence Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Art Publications Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rockefeller University: $875 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReach Prep Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCT Against Gun Violence Education Fund Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBard College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to The Pamela & Arthur Sanders Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About The Pamela & Arthur Sanders Family Foundation

How much does The Pamela & Arthur Sanders Family Foundation give?
The Pamela & Arthur Sanders Family Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $482,320 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Pamela & Arthur Sanders Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (16%), Arts & Culture (14%), Health (8%).
Who are The Pamela & Arthur Sanders Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Whitney Museum of American Art ($65k), American Friends of the Israel Museum ($52k), Washington Institute for Near East Policy ($50k).
Does The Pamela & Arthur Sanders Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Pamela & Arthur Sanders Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Pamela & Arthur Sanders Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Pamela & Arthur Sanders Family Foundation based?
The Pamela & Arthur Sanders Family Foundation is based in WA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $177k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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